Several years ago, as a skunkworks team of engineers inside Rivian set out to develop an electric micromobility vehicle, one question loomed. “What do we build in-house?” Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in an interview recounting the early days of Also, which spun out of Rivian earlier this year.
“We realized the only way to do this well is to build everything,” said Scaringe, who sits on Also’s board.
The result, which was revealed Wednesday at an event in Oakland, is a pedal-assist electric bike called the TM-B that is more than just a bike, according to Scaringe and Also President Chris Yu. “This is a whole platform of products we’re going to build in the microspace,” Scaringe said. And Scaringe wasn’t kidding. During the Wednesday event, Also revealed two quad-vehicles as well, one of which will be supplied to Amazon.
At a passing glance, this “more than a bike” looks like a bike, albeit a sleekly designed one that has a few hidden-in-plain sight features.
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